Daily Races

Daily Races, Weekly and Monthly series in VR Regatta. How do they work and how to participate.

Basics

Daily Race is a "Long Race" like race with conditions changing daily.

Features

• A long race with conditions changing slightly everyday. New race starts at 6am UTC everyday.
  
• Leader-board shared between platforms ( Steam, Oculus, Viveport ) - see who is the best today. Example[www.marineverse.com]
  
• Daily races organized into Weekly and Monthly race series. Example[www.marineverse.com]
  
• Ability to customize your own profile, including selecting a country to represent.
  
• Asynchronous multiplayer. You can sail at anytime during the day ( no "time-zone" issue ), and yet compare your entry against other sailors. All sailors have the same conditions on a given day.
  
• A "web based" map to compare your sailing to those of others. Example[www.marineverse.com]
  
• Detailed analytics to analyse and improve individual race performance. Example[www.marineverse.com]
  
• Winner announced daily. Follow Twitter or check Discord[discord.gg].

Leader-boards / How scoring works

Race entry

When sailors sails in a Daily Race and finishes the race - it counts as a race entry. If sailor is unsatisfied with the result, it's possible to submit one more entry ( up to 2 entries per day ), but the "latest" entry will replace the first entry. That means, that if the second attempt is worse then the first one, the second one is still used for the ranking.

The intention is to enable sailors to "try" again if something unexpected happens during the race ( controller battery dies ), while preventing extreme sailors from "spamming" the leader-board and trying until they get a good result. The intention is to make the Daily Race overall fair.

Race score

Race score = #Number_of_entries - #position

Boat that wins a race in which a large number of boats compete is rewarded more handsomely than a boat that wins a race against a smaller number of competitors.

Series score

( for example weekly or monthly ranking )

Series score = Divide the sum of boat race scores by the sum of the points boat would have scored if it had placed first in every race in which she competed; multiply the result by 100

Over the course of a long series, many entrants in a series will, for any of a variety of reasons, find that they must miss one or even several races in the series. Boat series score is based only on the races in which boat competes and, therefore, provided boat sails in sufficient races to qualify for the series, boat is not placed at a disadvantage if boat misses some races.


To qualify for inclusion in the final series results a boat shall compete in at least 50 percent of the races completed.

( So for weekly series, you have to race at least in 4 races )
( So for month series with 31 days, you have to race at least in 16 races )

Why Daily Races and what's next?

The Daily Races* were created to enable competitive sailing in a Early VR market. In the early market it is/was hard to organize a group of sailors available to sail at exactly the same time, due to different schedules and time zones.

The goal of Daily Races is to create an active racing community that will be able to start "real-time" multiplayer racing once the technology is ready and we have a critical mass of active VR sailors.

Daily Races* refers here specifically to asynchronous off-line races as opposed to more traditional synchronous real time racing.